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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. Can it be true that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?' 'Of course not,' replied Bohr, 'but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe it or not.'
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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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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