Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHRThe best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really 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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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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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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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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 a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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