A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
NIELS BOHRIn 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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