No No Youre Not Thinking Youre

This remark is attributed to Niels Bohr, reportedly said to a younger colleague during a discussion. It captures Bohr's view that formal logical deduction — "just being logical" — could be a trap in physics, leading thinkers to correct conclusions about the wrong models. Bohr believed that genuine thinking in quantum physics required a willingness to hold contradictory ideas simultaneously and to question the assumptions underlying one's logical framework.