Danish - Physicist | October 7, 1885 - November 18, 1962
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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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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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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Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
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