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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
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If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
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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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In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mashbut to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
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