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.
NIELS BOHRA person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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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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