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
NIELS BOHRPredition is risky, especially of the future.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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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 some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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