If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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 great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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