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Niels Bohr

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
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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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
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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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science

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