Niels Bohr quotes

Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory. His pioneering work on the Bohr model of the atom transformed modern physics. He played a central role in the development of quantum mechanics and influenced generations of scientists. Here are 61 of his quotes:

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. (Niels Bohr)
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. View quote
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. View quote
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No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical. View quote
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Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. View quote
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. View quote
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. View quote
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. View quote
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. View quote
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. View quote
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about. (Niels Bohr)
Einstein, stop telling God what to do! View quote
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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite. View quote
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are. View quote
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness. View quote
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based. View quote
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions. View quote
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Truth and clarity are complementary. View quote
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Nothing exists until it is measured. (Niels Bohr)
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future. View quote
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Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be. View quote
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems. View quote
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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. View quote
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Niels Bohr

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Occupation: Danish Physicist
Born: October 7, 1885
Died: November 18, 1962
Quotes count: 61
Wikipedia: Niels Bohr

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