It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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