It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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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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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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No paradox, no progress.
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