Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHR
NIELS BOHR
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Niels BohrNiels Bohr I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Niels BohrNiels Bohr 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.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr 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 BohrNiels Bohr The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr 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.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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