No paradox, no progress.
NIELS BOHRIt is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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