The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
NIELS BOHRThe measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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