Niels Bohr Quotes

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.

The 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.

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

In 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.

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.