The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHRThe opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHRIf we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHRThe measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
NIELS BOHRIt is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
NIELS BOHROf course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
NIELS BOHRYour theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
NIELS BOHRAnd anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHROh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
NIELS BOHRThere are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
NIELS BOHRIsolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
NIELS BOHRIt is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
NIELS BOHRIn the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
NIELS BOHRSome subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHRAn independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
NIELS BOHRThe 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