quotes by Niels Bohr
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"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
tags:
science
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"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
— Niels Bohr
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
— Niels Bohr
— 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
— Niels Bohr
tags:
truth
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"The 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."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
— Niels Bohr (Nuclear Physics)
— Niels Bohr (Nuclear Physics)
"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
— Niels Bohr
"“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” "
— Niels Bohr
— 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
— Niels Bohr
"Those who are not shocked when the first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."
— Niels Bohr (Volume II - Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge)
— Niels Bohr (Volume II - Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge)
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
tags:
humours
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"The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
tags:
atom,
physicist-
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tags:
reality-
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"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field"
— Niels Bohr
— Niels Bohr
tags:
humours
0 people liked it

