Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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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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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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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