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.
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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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