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Religion helps to make social life more harmonious; its most important task is to remind us, in the language of pictures and parables, of the wider framework within which our life is set.
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Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
Niels Bohr
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr -
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
Niels Bohr -
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
Niels Bohr -
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.
Niels Bohr -
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
Niels Bohr -
Opposites are complementary.
Niels Bohr
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Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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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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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr -
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.
Niels Bohr