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Niels Bohr

7 October 1885-18 November 1962

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Atomic theory is characterized today 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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The Concept is not about penetration. Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

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The Horseshoe is a bringer of luck, and apparently it works even if you don't believe in it.

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An Idea is that which has no hope if it does not appear bizarre.

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The Idea is, when great, that whose opposite is another great idea.

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Measurement is not a property of the thing measured when we go about measuring something.

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Measurement is a kind of violence. When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

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Openness is the best weapon of democracy, just as secrecy is the best weapon of a dictatorship.