When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
NIELS BOHRWhen it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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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