If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRA deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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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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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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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.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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