If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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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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