Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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 subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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, 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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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