Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHREvery sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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 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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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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