The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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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 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 present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating 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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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