I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHRA deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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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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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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