Quotes by : Niels Bohr

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

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

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

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

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

Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The....

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood....

[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....