Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
NIELS BOHRIsolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
NIELS BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
NIELS BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
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 BOHRAddress to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
NIELS BOHRIn 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 BOHRYou must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
NIELS BOHRWhen searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
NIELS BOHRIf we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHRI go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHRTruth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRThe best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
NIELS BOHROur 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 BOHRThe meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
NIELS BOHRIt is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
NIELS BOHRSome things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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