Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
NIELS BOHRIf quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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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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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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