How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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