When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
NIELS BOHRIf 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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