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 be true that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?' 'Of course not,'… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it’s own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics] — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
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