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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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Nuclear Physicist
Philosopher Of Science
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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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It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
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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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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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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
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No, no, you're not thinking you're just being logical.
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