Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
NIELS BOHRI go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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