No paradox, no progress.
NIELS BOHRWe are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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