If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
NIELS BOHRNothing exists until it is measured.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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No paradox, no progress.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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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 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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