Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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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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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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