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.
NIELS BOHRWhat 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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