Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRTruth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood 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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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