A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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