And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRIt is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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