Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for 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 the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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