Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
NIELS BOHRWhen 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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