Niels Bohr quotes

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