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.
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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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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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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