It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
NIELS BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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