An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
NIELS BOHROpposites are not contradictory but complementary.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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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, 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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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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