How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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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.
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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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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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