The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
NIELS BOHRIf we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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