If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHRThe opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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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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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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