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Niels Bohr
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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As quoted in The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 24 | Some things are so serious that one can only joke about them. | Variant without any citation as to author in Denial is not a river in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom, p. 8
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Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
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As quoted in Meeting the Universe Halfway (2007) by Karen Michelle Barad, p. 254, with a footnote citing The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr (1998). | Variants: Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly h
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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As quoted in Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar‎ (1991) by Kameshwar C. Wali, p. 147
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan L. Mackay, p. 35
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Two sorts of truth: profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd.
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As quoted by his son Hans Bohr in "My Father", published in Niels Bohr: His Life and Work (1967), p. 328 | Unsourced variant: The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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As quoted in Niels Bohr : The Man, His Science, & the World They Changed (1966) by Ruth Moore, p. 196
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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As quoted in The World of the Atom (1966) by Henry Abraham Boorse and Lloyd Motz, p. 741
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Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.
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"The Unity of Human Knowledge" (October 1960)
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
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Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper "Innovation in Physics" (Scientific American, 199, No. 3, Sept
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An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
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As quoted by Edward Teller, in [http://books.google.de/books?id=I1QEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62 Dr. Edward Teller's Magnificent Obsession by Robert Coughlan, in LIFE magazine (6 September 1954), p. 62] | Variant: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes whic
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