Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
NIELS BOHRPredition is risky, especially of the future.
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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for 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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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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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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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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