Niels Bohr (1885 – 1962) physicist
Attributed:
- Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
- How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
- No, but I'm told it works even if you don't believe in it.
- When asked if he really believed a horseshoe above his door would bring good luck.
- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- The above quote is also attributed to the Danish humourist Storm P and the Danish poet Piet Hein: "det er svært at spå - især om fremtiden"
- Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
- Notes: said to a young physicist.
- Variation: Your theory is crazy, the question is whether it's crazy enough to be true.
- It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature
- Cited on A. Petersen, The philosophy of Niels Bohr, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1963, p. 8
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