Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
NIELS BOHRAnd anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for 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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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