Predition is risky, especially of the future.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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 best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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