And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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 are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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