Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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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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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 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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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We 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.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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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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