Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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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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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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No paradox, no progress.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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