There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
NIELS BOHROur task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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 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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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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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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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No paradox, no progress.
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