No paradox, no progress.
NIELS BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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