Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRAll rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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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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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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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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