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.
NIELS BOHRIn the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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