Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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