Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHR
Never 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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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 things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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