Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for 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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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