Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood 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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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