Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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