Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
NIELS BOHRPrediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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