It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
NIELS BOHRIf an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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