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Explore the brilliant mind of Niels Bohr with a collection of his most insightful and thought-provoking quotes. Discover his perspectives on the nature of reality, the duality of truth, and the challenges of prediction. This compilation features profound statements that will make you question and understand the world around you. Also featuring insights from other great thinkers like Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman.

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00:00Everything we call a reality is built up of the most extreme simplifications.
00:06Niels Bohr
00:10The opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.
00:16Niels Bohr
00:18An expert is a person who has found out by his own mistakes that everything he's supposed to do before
00:24has been done wrong.
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00:30Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
00:35Niels Bohr
00:39We are always standing on the threshold of the new.
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00:47If you can't explain it to an average person, you don't understand it yourself.
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00:57The question is not whether we can predict the future, but whether we can change it.
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01:06The opposite of a deep truth may be a deep falsehood.
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01:15We are what we repeatedly do.
01:18Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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01:27What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know.
01:30It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
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01:37Physics is the fundamental science.
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01:45A physicist is a tool that the universe made to understand itself.
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01:54The more I think about the human race, the more I realize that it is a slow, stupid, and greedy
02:00species.
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02:06There are two things that are too short to be trusted, words and predictions.
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02:15When it comes to atoms, science is not the observation of reality.
02:20It is the poetic interpretation of experimental facts.
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02:29We must be careful not to confuse the language of science with the language of reality.
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02:39The most important thing is to never stop questioning.
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02:47A scientist is a person who is always trying to find out how things work.
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02:57The very concept of objective reality is problematic.
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03:05We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.
03:09But whether it is crazy enough to save us, remains to be seen.
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03:16Ah
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03:16B
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