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Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
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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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
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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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong

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