Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of 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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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