Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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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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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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No paradox, no progress.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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