Nothing exists until it is measured.
NIELS BOHRYour theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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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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