Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
NIELS BOHRPredition is risky, especially of the future.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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 is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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