One must always do what one really cannot.
NIELS BOHRNo paradox, no progress.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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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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