Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood 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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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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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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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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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