Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
NIELS BOHRPrediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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 sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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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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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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