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Niels Bohr

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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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Creation Force Science Value World
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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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
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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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
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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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong

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