It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
NIELS BOHRAll 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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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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 meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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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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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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