How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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