Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
NIELS BOHRTruth and clarity are complementary.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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 anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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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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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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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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