When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
NIELS BOHREvery valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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