A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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It 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.
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