"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 spok...












Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
More Niels Bohr quotes
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
"The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes...
"It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
"Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
"[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in po...
"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.