Predition is risky, especially of the future.
NIELS BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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 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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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