Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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 you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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 a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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 some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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 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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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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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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