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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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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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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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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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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