Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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