All Niels Bohr Quotes
- Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Call
- The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Best
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. All
- Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Business
- Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. Bears
- If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. Inspiration
- Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. Crazy
- 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… Agreed
- Einstein, stop telling God what to do! Einstein
- It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. Concern
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. Able
- There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. Laugh
- There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also… False
- If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. Anybody
- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Affirmation
- No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. Inspirational
- A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. Alaska
- The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. Another Profound
- How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. Hope
- 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… Atoms
- 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… Advanced
- What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience… Beings
- Truth and clarity are complementary Badass
- Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it. Anyone
- 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?'… Asks