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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
Association Football Player
Chemist
Nuclear Physicist
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
University Teacher
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
Nicholas Baker
N. Bohr
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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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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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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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
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It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
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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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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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