Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
NIELS BOHRNothing exists until it is measured.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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 you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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