I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHRIn the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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