All Niels Bohr Quotes
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr
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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
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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
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr
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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
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Niels Bohr
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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
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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
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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
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr
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