When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow…

“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation,…

— Finn Aaserud

“Despite the earnest belief of most of his fans, Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity, special or general.…

— Sam Kean

Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist…

— Erwin Schrodinger

“I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the…

— Werner Heisenberg

“After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had…

— Arnold Sommerfeld

“We walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot ( she said and proved that she could get…

— Otto Robert Frisch

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man;…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. "Can it…

— Niels Bohr

“And at that age, the only boys I didn’t think were gross were dead scientists – and it’s not like I wanted to kiss…

— Sarah Cross

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist,…

— Arthur Koestler

“On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who met him…

— Walter Isaacson

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend…

— John Cleese

“The Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr defined an expert as follows: ‘An expert is a man who has made all the…

— Emma Sadleir

“Niels Bohr, the great Dane of quantum physics, was fond of saying, "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to…

— David Mitchell

“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet,” the Danish Nobel physicist Niels Bohr once said.”

— Satya Nadella