The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
NIELS BOHRAn independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
-
-
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHR -
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 -
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 and establishing mental connections.
NIELS BOHR -
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
NIELS BOHR -
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
NIELS BOHR -
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
NIELS BOHR -
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
NIELS BOHR -
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHR -
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
NIELS BOHR -
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
NIELS BOHR -
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
NIELS BOHR -
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
NIELS BOHR -
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 -
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
NIELS BOHR -
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHR -
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
NIELS BOHR -
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHR -
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
NIELS BOHR -
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
NIELS BOHR -
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
NIELS BOHR -
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
NIELS BOHR -
Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHR -
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
NIELS BOHR -
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
NIELS BOHR -
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
NIELS BOHR -
No paradox, no progress.
NIELS BOHR