Niels Bohr Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”

“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”

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

“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”

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

“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”

“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.”

“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.”