Quotes from Niels Bohr

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

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

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.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

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.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

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

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

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.

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.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.