Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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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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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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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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