Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
NIELS BOHRIn the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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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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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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