Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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