When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
NIELS BOHRNo paradox, no progress.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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