A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
NIELS BOHRPrediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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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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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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 are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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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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