If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know 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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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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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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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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 expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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No paradox, no progress.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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