No paradox, no progress.
NIELS BOHREverything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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 meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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