There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
NIELS BOHREverything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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No paradox, no progress.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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