Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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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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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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