There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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