Quotes of Niels Bohr - somelinesforyou

“ 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 correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. ”

- 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

“ You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question. [A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.] ”

- 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 correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”

- 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

“ The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the spacetime 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

“ An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ”

- 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 correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. ”

- Niels Bohr
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