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Copenhagen Quote by Niels Bohr

“You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!” quote by Niels Bohr — Download Open image

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

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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

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“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”

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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it’s own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

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

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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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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

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Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

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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…

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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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I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody…

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“They basked in the sweet-scented breeze, and felt the sunshine warming their bare heads. Petals drifted from the gnarled apple and cherry trees, creating…

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We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final…

Richard M. Daley

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She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b)…

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After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries…

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I like Copenhagen, just because my shows there have been really good for some reason. Not that I love the city itself, but every…

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Copenhagen is my local club where I live in Denmark and is the club I've been to watch more than anybody else. But that's…

Kasper Schmeichel

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A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very…

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So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and…

Murray Gell-Mann

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It might be fun to play for Copenhagen, because it was there that it all began.

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Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This…

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In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants…

Anthony Bourdain

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