Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHRIn the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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