Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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