Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHREverything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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