Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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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 are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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