It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
NIELS BOHRIt is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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No paradox, no progress.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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