Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHRSome things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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Of 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.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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No paradox, no progress.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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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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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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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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