A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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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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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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