It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
NIELS BOHRIt is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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 think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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