Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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 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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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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