If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRIt is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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