Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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