“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately, humankind in general, are common traits of the Jewish intellectual. So too is a well-fortified atheism. Bohr ended with no religious belief and a dislike of all religions that claimed to base their teachings on revelations.”
Finn Aaserud, Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited“I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.”
Aage Bohr“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.”
Niels Bohr“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.”
Niels Bohr“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.”
Niels Bohr“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
Niels Bohr“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr“While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.”
Niels Bohr“Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”
Niels Bohr“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”
Niels Bohr