Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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 some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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