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.
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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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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