닐스 보어
아니, 아니, 당신은 지금 생각하고 있는게 아니야, 단지 논리적일 뿐이지.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
체스터 A. 아서
Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.
마르셀 프루스트
괴로움은 치유하는 유일한 방법은 그 자체를 철저히 경험하는 것이다.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life.
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man’s nature.
사랑할 때는 마음의 평화가 있을 수 없다. 자기가 확보한 이점도, 더한 욕망의 새로운 출발점 이외엔 아무 것도 아니기 때문이다.
고뇌는 철저하게 경험하는 것에 의해서만 치유될 수 있다.
자기에게 타인을 결합시키는 유대는 우리의 마음속에만 존재한다.