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.
NIELS BOHRWhen 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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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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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find 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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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