A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
NIELS BOHRNo, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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