Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

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About Niels Bohr

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Niels Henrik David Bohr (; Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was also a philosopher and a promoter...

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

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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.

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It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get hung up on the past. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead.

—Rachel Van Dyken in The Bet

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

—Richard Feynman

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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

—Sydney J. Harris

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

—George Burns

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