The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHRYour theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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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.
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