Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
NIELS BOHRIf we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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