An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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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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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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