A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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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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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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