In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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