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.
NIELS BOHRI go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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, 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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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 not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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