The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
NIELS BOHRWhen searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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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 best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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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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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.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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