Niels Bohr Quotes

Denmark, Physicist
October 7, 1885 – November, 18, 1962.

Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish: [nels ˈboɐ̯ˀ]) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.

Religion helps to make social life more harmonious; its most important task is to remind us, in the language of pictures and parables, of the wider framework within which our life is set.

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

Niels Bohr

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

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- Think
- Express
- Clearly
Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

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- God
- Tell
- Dice
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

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Opposites are complementary.

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

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- Hope
- Progress
- Paradox

We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

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- Poetry
- Language
- Atoms
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

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- Serious
- Joke
- Subjects
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

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- Crazy
- Chance
- Theory
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

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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.

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