17 Quotes by Niels Bohr about science
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I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a. subjective side won't get us very far.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
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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 doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
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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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