Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be 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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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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