Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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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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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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 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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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