Niels Bohr Quotes

"Truth and clarity are complementary."

"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."

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

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."

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

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

"Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are."

"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."

"When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators."

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images."

"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."

"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 true."

"Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefor objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language."

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