70+ Niels Bohr Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
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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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
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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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand

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