Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHRNo, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
-
-
Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHR -
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
NIELS BOHR -
Nothing exists until it is measured.
NIELS BOHR -
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 -
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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 a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
NIELS BOHR -
Of 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 BOHR -
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
NIELS BOHR -
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHR -
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
NIELS BOHR -
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 -
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
NIELS BOHR -
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHR -
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
NIELS BOHR






