And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRAn expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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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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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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