We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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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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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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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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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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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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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