You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments! — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition.… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is… — 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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