If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood 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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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