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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
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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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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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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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No paradox, no progress.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
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It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
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