If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRNothing exists until it is measured.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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 wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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