The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
NIELS BOHRNo paradox, no progress.
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 present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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