Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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 is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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