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.
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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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 measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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