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Quote by Niels Bohr
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how N

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. – Niels Bohr

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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. – Niels Bohr

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Thinking
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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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Philosophical
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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. – Niels Bohr

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. – e.e. cummings

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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. – Muhammad Iqbal

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. – Desmond Tutu

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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. – Gilbert White

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When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation. – Laurence J. Peter, Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Times, 1977

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