The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
NIELS BOHROpposites are not contradictory but complementary.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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 and clarity are complementary.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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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 a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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