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Quote by Niels Bohr
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. Th

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. – Niels Bohr

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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr

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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. – Niels Bohr

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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. – Niels Bohr

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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – its some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. – Jack Prelutsky

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In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. – James Broughton

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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding ones own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. – Edward Dowden

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Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. – Kevin Mitnick

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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I think its wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them. – Rex Hunt

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