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.
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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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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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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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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