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.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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