Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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