Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHRWhen it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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