Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
NIELS BOHR
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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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