If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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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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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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