It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
NIELS BOHRAnyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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