Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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