A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
NIELS BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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