Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRThe measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood 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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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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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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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