Niels Bohr Quotes

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• Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

  Niels Bohr

  Real, Physics, Quantum

  "Yoga Deepens Its Roots in the West" by Ravé Mehta, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Thinking, Order

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• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

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• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

  Niels Bohr

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Nothing exists until it is measured.

  Niels Bohr

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• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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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.

  Niels Bohr

  Creating, World, Assuming

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• A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Opposites, Truth Is

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• In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

  Niels Bohr

  Drama, Actors, Existence

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• A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'

  Niels Bohr

  Wall, Believe, Luck

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• A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Alaska, Atoms

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• I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

  Niels Bohr

  Asks

  "God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World and Why Their Differences Matter". Book by Stephen Prothero, April 20, 2010.

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• If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

  Niels Bohr

  Thinking, Firsts, Shows

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• No paradox, no progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Progress, Paradox

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• Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Science, Thinking

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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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.

  Niels Bohr

  Spiritual, Rebel, Radical

  "The World of the Atom". Book by Henry Abraham Boorse and Lloyd Motz, January 21, 1966.

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• If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

  Niels Bohr

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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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.

  Niels Bohr

  Political, Democracy, Weapons

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• When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Atoms, Language

  Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.

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• The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

  Niels Bohr

  Meaning Of Life, Facts, Life Has No Meaning

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• There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

  Niels Bohr

  Laughter, Laughing, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

  Niels Bohr

  Simple, Belief, Physics

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• When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'

  Niels Bohr

  Nature, Science, Thinking

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• We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

  Niels Bohr

  Play, Degrees, Statistics

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