Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHRIf you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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