We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
NIELS BOHRThe 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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