Niels Bohr Quotes - Page 4

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• Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

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  Serious

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• It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

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  Future, Difficult

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• We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

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  Crazy, Ideas, Madness

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• One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

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  Butterfly, Science, Color

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• And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Firsts

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• You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

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  Opposites, Truth Is, Truth And Falsehood

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• If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

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  Confused, Science, Mechanic

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• Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

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  Science, Firsts, Physics

  "The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Volume IV: Causality and Complementarity" edited by Jan Faye and Henry J. Folse (1998); later quoted in Karen Michelle Barad "Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning" (p. 254), 2007.

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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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  Funny, Science, Hearing

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• Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.

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  Men, People, Details

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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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  Faith, Wall, Believe

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• Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

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  Predictions, Hard

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• Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

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  Science, Predictions, Difficult

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• Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

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  Mechanic, Quantum, Subjects

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