Danish - Physicist | October 7, 1885 - November 18, 1962
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr
FutureDifficultPredictionVery
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
TechnologyWillThirtyMoreTwo
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
RealEverythingThingsCallMade
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
TruthProfoundMayOppositeWell
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
ScienceCrazyEnoughBe TrueTrue
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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