There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
NIELS BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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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 physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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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 paradox, no progress.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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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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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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