Top 80 Niels Bohr Quotes (2024 Update)
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Niels Bohr Quote: “If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.”

51. “If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”

52. “When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature.”

53. “Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.”

54. “In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.”

55. “If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “We are suspended in language.”

56. “We are suspended in language.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.”

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

Niels Bohr Quote: “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”

58. “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “In quantum mechanics... an observation here and now changes in general the ‘state’ of the observed system... I consider the unpredictable change of the state by a single observation... to be an abandonment of the idea of the isolation of the observer from the course of physical events outside himself.”

59. “In quantum mechanics... an observation here and now changes in general the ‘state’ of the observed system... I consider the unpredictable change of the state by a single observation... to be an abandonment of the idea of the isolation of the observer from the course of physical events outside himself.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Un experto es una persona que ha cometido todos los errores que se pueden cometer en un determinado campo.”

60. “Un experto es una persona que ha cometido todos los errores que se pueden cometer en un determinado campo.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.”

61. “The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Anyone who is not shocked by the quantum theory has not understood it.”

62. “Anyone who is not shocked by the quantum theory has not understood it.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “The Stone Age didn’t end because the World ran out of stones.”

63. “The Stone Age didn’t end because the World ran out of stones.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!”

64. “You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!”

Niels Bohr Quote: “It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.”

65. “It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “You are not thinking, you are just being logical.”

66. “You are not thinking, you are just being logical.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.”

67. “There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Perhaps I have found out a little about the structure of atoms.”

68. “Perhaps I have found out a little about the structure of atoms.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “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.”

69. “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 Quote: “Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.”

70. “Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.”

71. “An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Vivere est Cogitare.”

72. “Vivere est Cogitare.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.”

73. “It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details – Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.”

74. “Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details – Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”

75. “Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.”

76. “Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.”

77. “All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a. subjective side won’t get us very far.”

78. “I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a. subjective side won’t get us very far.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”

79. “The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.”

80. “The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “I feel personally responsible for the universe’s inevitable heat death.”

81. “I feel personally responsible for the universe’s inevitable heat death.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.”

82. “Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory regarding the limited applicability of such customary idealizations, we must in fact turn to quite other branches of science, such as psychology, or even to that kind of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tzu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence.”

83. “For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory regarding the limited applicability of such customary idealizations, we must in fact turn to quite other branches of science, such as psychology, or even to that kind of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tzu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence.”

Niels Bohr Quote: “There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. 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.”

84. “There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. 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.”

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