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.
NIELS BOHRPredition is risky, especially of the future.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood 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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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