Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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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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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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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just 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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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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