Niels Bohr Quotes
Collection of top 74 famous quotes about Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Niels Bohr quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
— 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
![Niels Bohr Quotes By Isidor Isaac Rabi: When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/niels-bohr-quotes-by-isidor-isaac-rabi-577782.jpg "Niels Bohr Quotes By Isidor Isaac Rabi: When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow")
When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
One must always do what one really cannot.
— Niels Bohr
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
— Niels Bohr
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
— Niels Bohr
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
— Niels Bohr
We are suspended in language.
— Niels Bohr
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
— Niels Bohr
![Niels Bohr Quotes By Winston Churchill: I did not like the man [Niels Bohr]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/niels-bohr-quotes-by-winston-churchill-1438948.jpg "Niels Bohr Quotes By Winston Churchill: I did not like the man [Niels Bohr]")
I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head ...
— Winston Churchill
Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
— Niels Bohr
Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
— Niels Bohr
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
— Niels Bohr
Nothing exists until it is measured.
— Niels Bohr
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
— 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
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
A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.
— Niels Bohr
It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
— Niels Bohr
Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
— Niels Bohr
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
— 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
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
— Niels Bohr
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
— 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
Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
— Steven D. Levitt
Truth and clarity are complementary
— Niels Bohr
You are not thinking, you are just being logical.
— Niels Bohr
Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
— Niels Bohr
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
— Niels Bohr
