There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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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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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 all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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