Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
NIELS BOHRIf you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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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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