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.
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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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The 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.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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