Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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 measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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