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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

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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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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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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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The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.
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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.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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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.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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