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.
NIELS BOHRWhen searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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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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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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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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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