black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr

There 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 BOHR

Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
NIELS BOHR

Funny Future Risk
It 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 BOHR

Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHR

Thinking Understand Yourself
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHR

Book Myself Religious
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
NIELS BOHR

Deep Reality Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
NIELS BOHR

Measure Property Science
Nothing exists until it is measured.
NIELS BOHR

Existence One Liner
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHR

Myself Science Understand
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHR

Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHR

End Laughter Ourselves
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
NIELS BOHR

Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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

Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
NIELS BOHR

Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
NIELS BOHR

Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
NIELS BOHR

Difficult Future Time

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Niels Bohr Quotes