One must always do what one really cannot.
NIELS BOHRThe opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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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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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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