No paradox, no progress.
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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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