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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. — Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future. — Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions. — Niels Bohr

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. — Niels Bohr

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. — Niels Bohr

When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — Niels Bohr

Perhaps I have found out a little about the structure of atoms. — Niels Bohr

Physics is not about how the world is, it is about what we can say about the world — Niels Bohr

One must always do what one really cannot. — Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea. — Niels Bohr

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it's own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. — Niels Bohr

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments! — Niels Bohr

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it. — Niels Bohr

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance. — Niels Bohr

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive. — Niels Bohr

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr

The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth. — Rebecca Goldstein

We are suspended in language. — Niels Bohr

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe. — Aage Bohr

Truth and clarity are complementary — Niels Bohr

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics] — Niels Bohr

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness. — Niels Bohr

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it. — Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. — Niels Bohr

Prediction is difficult, especially the future. — Niels Bohr

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth — Niels Bohr

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

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. — Niels Bohr

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

I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head ... — Winston Churchill

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. — Niels Bohr

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite. — Niels Bohr

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about. — Niels Bohr

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it. — Niels Bohr

It is difficult to predict, especially the future. — Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said. — Niels Bohr

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators. — Niels Bohr

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. — Niels Bohr

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

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. — Niels Bohr

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them. — Niels Bohr

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true. — Niels Bohr

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. — Niels Bohr

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. — Niels Bohr

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it. — Niels Bohr

Of 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 Bohr

Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. — Steven D. Levitt

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think — Niels Bohr

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified. — Niels Bohr

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed. — A. N. Wilson

If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything. — Niels Bohr

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough. — Niels Bohr

When Einstein later complained that "God does not play dice with the world," Bohr reportedly fired back, "Stop telling God what to do. — Michio Kaku

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head. — Niels Bohr

There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them. — Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr

Predition is risky, especially of the future. — Niels Bohr

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. — Niels Bohr

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. — Niels Bohr

Every 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 Bohr

Nothing exists until it is measured. — Niels Bohr

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems . — Niels Bohr

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. — Niels Bohr

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. — Niels Bohr

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. — Niels Bohr

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. — Niels Bohr

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be — Niels Bohr

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. — Niels Bohr

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. — Niels Bohr

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. — Niels Bohr

Stop telling God what to do with his dice. — Niels Bohr

You are not thinking, you are just being logical. — Niels Bohr

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future. — Niels Bohr