Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHRPredition is risky, especially of the future.
NIELS BOHRThe measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
NIELS BOHRA deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
NIELS BOHRTruth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRYou must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
NIELS BOHRAn expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
NIELS BOHRNo, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
NIELS BOHRThere 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 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 BOHRWhen 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 BOHRSome subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHRAddress to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
NIELS BOHRI go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHRIt is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
NIELS BOHRIt is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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