It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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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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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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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All 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.
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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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