Quotes by : Niels Bohr

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

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned....

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well....

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

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential....

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.....

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is....

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes....

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