A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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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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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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood 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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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