If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
NIELS BOHRIf an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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