Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep 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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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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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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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 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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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