The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHRI go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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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 person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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