If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHRA physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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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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No paradox, no progress.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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