If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHROh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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