Predition is risky, especially of the future.
NIELS BOHRYour theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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