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No paradox, no progress.

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
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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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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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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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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 are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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