black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
NIELS BOHR

Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
NIELS BOHR

Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHR

Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
NIELS BOHR

Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
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

Creation Force Science Value World
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
NIELS BOHR

Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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

Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
NIELS BOHR

Appearance Hope Mad
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
NIELS BOHR

Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHR

Joke Oneself Serious
Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHR

One Liner Science Truth
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHR

Greatness Ideas One Liner
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
NIELS BOHR

Funny God One Liner
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
NIELS BOHR

Understand Yourself
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHR

Thinking Understand Yourself

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Niels Bohr Quotes