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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.


Niels Bohr

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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
NIELS BOHR A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
GEORGE WALD A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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ERWIN SCHRöDINGER Despite the earnest belief of most of his fans, Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize for the theory ...
SAM KEAN I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, f...
AAGE BOHR The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is a...
NEIL POSTMAN Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures...
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NIELS BOHR No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
NIELS BOHR Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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NIELS BOHR Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
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NIELS BOHR Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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NIELS BOHR Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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NIELS BOHR Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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NIELS BOHR Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
NIELS BOHR Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHR Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
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NIELS BOHR We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy en...
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NIELS BOHR Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question
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NIELS BOHR You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
NIELS BOHR An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field...
NIELS BOHR Must have something to do with the zero-point energy.
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NIELS BOHR You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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CARL SAGAN God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
FRANCIS COLLINS It just reinforces the concept that there is an easy way to make money. It's fool's gold they are lo...
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NOAM CHOMSKY In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
ALAN W. WATTS I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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ORSON SCOTT CARD Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
DAVID GROSS Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
W.S. MERWIN An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
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FRANCESCO BONAMI 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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LEWIS BLACK To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that whi...
UNKNOWN One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER At most, a quarter of an inch is what we're looking at right now.
LYNN KENNEDY The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure o...
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TORY BURCH An organism at war with itself is doomed.
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