Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
NIELS BOHRWe 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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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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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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 a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about 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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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 it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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