Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRIn 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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