Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHRAn independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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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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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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