We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
—Niels Bohr
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
—Niels Bohr
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.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Technology, Truth
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Laughter
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr
Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Living, Courage, Life
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Truth, Wisdom
There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Truth
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Experts
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
—Niels Bohr
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Thinking, Thought, Thoughts
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
—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
Topics: Science, Scientists
Of course I don’t believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Belief
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
—Niels Bohr
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Prophecy
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
—Niels Bohr
Topics: Thinking, Difficulty
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- Stephen Hawking English Theoretical Physicist
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