Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
NIELS BOHRIf we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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