Niels Bohr Quotes
Niels Bohr Quotes
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
2315The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
2091There 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.
1825You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
2954An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
2877Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
2270Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
1330The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.
2255Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
1683It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
1232Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
2318Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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