I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHRWhen it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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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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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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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 measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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