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Science Quotes by Niels Bohr
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
- Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
- The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a…
- Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
- If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
- Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
- 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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