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.
NIELS BOHRNothing exists until it is measured.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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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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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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