No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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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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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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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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