Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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 measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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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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