If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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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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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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