It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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 opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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