Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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