Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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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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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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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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