No paradox, no progress.
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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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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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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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