One must always do what one really cannot.
NIELS BOHROf course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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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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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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