Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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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 opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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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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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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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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