Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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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 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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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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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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