In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
NIELS BOHRNo, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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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 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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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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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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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