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.
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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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