Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
NIELS BOHRAnyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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No paradox, no progress.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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