Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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 opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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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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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Nothing exists until it is 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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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about 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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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