Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be 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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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