I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHROh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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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 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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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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