Niels Bohr Quotes and Quotation

(1885 – 1962)

Attributed:

• Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

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

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

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

• Never express yourself more clearly than you think.

• No, but I'm told it works even if you don't believe in it.
  • When asked if he really believed a horseshoe above his door would bring good luck.

• Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
  • The above quote is also attributed to the danish humourist Storm P and the danish poet Piet Hein: "det er svært at spå - især om fremtiden"

• Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
  • Notes: said to a young physicist.
  • Variation: Your theory is crazy, the question is whether it's crazy enough to be true.

• It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature

Cited on A. Petersen, The philosophy of Niels Bohr, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1963, p. 8

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