An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
NIELS BOHRThe 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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 some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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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 you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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No paradox, no progress.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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