Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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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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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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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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