Nothing exists until it is measured.
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More Niels Bohr Quotes
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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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