The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
NIELS BOHRAddress to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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