black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

One must always do what one really cannot.

Niels Bohr

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 and ideas to others.
NIELS BOHR

Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
NIELS BOHR

Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
One must always do what one really cannot.
NIELS BOHR

Inspirational Oneself
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
NIELS BOHR

Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
NIELS BOHR

Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHR

Thinking Understand Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
NIELS BOHR

Measure Property Science
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
NIELS BOHR

Funny Joke Science Serious
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
NIELS BOHR

Logical Thinking Yourself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
NIELS BOHR

Funny God One Liner
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
NIELS BOHR

Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
NIELS BOHR

Science Support
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.
NIELS BOHR

Himself Human Value
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
NIELS BOHR

Deep Truth Wisdom
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
NIELS BOHR

Language Poetry Science
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHR

End Laughter Ourselves

One must always do what one really cannot.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

One must always do what one really cannot.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Niels Bohr Quotes