Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
NIELS BOHR
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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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