If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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 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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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