Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
NIELS BOHRIf 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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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 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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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