Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
NIELS BOHR
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.
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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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 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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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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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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