Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHREvery sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHRTruth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHROpposites are not contradictory but complementary.
NIELS BOHRIf anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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 BOHRPrediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
NIELS BOHRSome subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHRWe all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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 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 BOHRTruth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
NIELS BOHREvery 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 BOHREinstein, stop telling God what to do!
NIELS BOHROf 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 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 BOHRI go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHR