A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
NIELS BOHRThe meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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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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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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