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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

~Niels Bohr

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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

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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.

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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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Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

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While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Physicist

Born: October 7th, 1885

Died: November 18th, 1962

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