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.
NIELS BOHRNo, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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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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