An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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 independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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