We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Opposites are not contradictory but 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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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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