Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHRThe meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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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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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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