Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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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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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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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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