Predition is risky, especially of the future.
NIELS BOHRWhen 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.
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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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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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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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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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