How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
NIELS BOHRAddress to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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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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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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