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.
NIELS BOHRYour theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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