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.
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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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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 aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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 meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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