If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
NIELS BOHRAddress to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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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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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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