The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHRThere are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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