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.
NIELS BOHRSometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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