If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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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 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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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