Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHROpposites are not contradictory but complementary.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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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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