Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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