I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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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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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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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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