Niels Bohr Quotes
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Being, Thinking)
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
- Niels Bohr
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Nature, Physics, Wrong)
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."
- Niels Bohr
"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: First, Physics)
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Progress, Hope, Now, Paradox)
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Affirmation, Question)
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"
- Niels Bohr
(Related: God)
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Mistakes)
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Man, Mistakes)
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
- Niels Bohr
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."
- Niels Bohr
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Theory)
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Truth, Fact, Falsehood, May)
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Future)
"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."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Technology, Truth, Will, Years)
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Democracy, Dictatorship, Secrecy)
"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."
- Niels Bohr
"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 true."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Truth)
"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."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Being, Chance, Feeling, Question, Theory)
"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."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Poetry, Atoms, Facts, Language)