Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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No paradox, no progress.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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