If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
NIELS BOHREvery great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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