In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
NIELS BOHROf 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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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 best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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