When 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 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 BOHRIt is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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 BOHRIn the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
NIELS BOHRAccuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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 BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
NIELS BOHROpposites are not contradictory but complementary.
NIELS BOHRWhen 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 BOHRAn independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
NIELS BOHRWhen it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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 BOHRWhen searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
NIELS BOHRThe opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
NIELS BOHRHow wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
NIELS BOHRI go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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