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.
NIELS BOHRThe opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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