Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHRThere are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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