black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

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
No paradox, no progress.
NIELS BOHR

One Liner Progress Science
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
NIELS BOHR

Science Support
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
NIELS BOHR

Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHR

Greatness Ideas One Liner
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
NIELS BOHR

Development Nature Ourselves Talk
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
NIELS BOHR

Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHR

Idiot Spiritual
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
NIELS BOHR

Language Play Word
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
NIELS BOHR

Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
NIELS BOHR

Appearance Hope Mad
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

Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
NIELS BOHR

Deep Truth Wisdom
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHR

Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
NIELS BOHR

Experiement People Science Work Yourself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHR

End Laughter Ourselves
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
NIELS BOHR

Difficult Future Time
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
NIELS BOHR

Education Learning Science
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
NIELS BOHR

Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHR

One Liner Science Truth
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
NIELS BOHR

Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
NIELS BOHR

Enough Polite Wrong
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
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
NIELS BOHR

Life Philosophy Wisdom
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
NIELS BOHR

Fake Science Truth Wisdom
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
NIELS BOHR

Science Understand

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Niels Bohr Quotes