We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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