The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
NIELS BOHRIf you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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