Niels Bohr (Niels Henrik David Bohr) Quotes

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.

Niels Bohr

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• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Beautiful
  • Question
  • Always

• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
  • Love
  • Think
  • Acting

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Art
  • Effort

• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Study
  • Competition

• It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Job
  • True

• I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Women
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Building

• Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Math

• If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

  

  John Milton
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Memory

• Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.

  

  Elliott Hundley
  • Reality
  • Familiar
  • Relevant

• Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Children
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Niels Bohr
  • Crazy
  • Chance
  • Theory