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An independant reality in the ...

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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Opposites are not contradictor...

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

What is that we human beings u...

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

We depend on our words...Our t...

We depend on our words...Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character...We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word 'reality' is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

Truth and clarity are compleme...

Truth and clarity are complementary

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Anyone not shocked by quantum ...

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

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The very nature of the quantum...

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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A visitor to Niels Bohr's coun...

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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A physicist visits a colleague...

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.'

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

In physics we deal with states...

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&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

When searching for harmony in ...

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

The old saying of the two kind...

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

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Truth is something that we can...

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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You must come to Copenhagen to...

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

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When asked ... [about] an unde...

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'

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It is the hallmark of any deep...

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

Anyone who can contemplate qua...

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

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And anyone who thinks they can...

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.

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Nothing exists until it is mea...

Nothing exists until it is measured.

Niels Bohr 107 quotes

It is very difficult to make a...

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

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