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.
NIELS BOHRA person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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