If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
NIELS BOHREverything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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