Quotes About Niels

#1. Copenhagen interpretation Niels Bohr's combination of instrumentalism, anthropocentrism and studied ambiguity, used to avoid understanding quantum theory as being about reality.

David Deutsch

#2. The legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr distinguished two kinds of truths. An ordinary truth is a statement whose opposite is a falsehood. A profound truth is a statement whose opposite is also a profound truth.

Frank Wilczek

#3. Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Steven D. Levitt

#4. When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#5. There's a quote from the famous physicist Niels Bohr, who posits that the way you become an expert in a field is to make every mistake possible in that field.

Sebastian Gutierrez

#6. I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head ...

Winston Churchill

#7. 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

#8. Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

Murray Gell-Mann

#9. Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Niels Bohr

#10. If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

#11. Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

Niels Arden Oplev

#12. Nothing exists until it is measured.

Niels Bohr

#13. In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

Niels Bohr

#14. Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it's own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

#15. Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

Niels Bohr

#16. A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

Niels Bohr

#17. You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

Niels Bohr

#18. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

#19. The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

Niels Henrik Abel

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

Niels Bohr

#21. I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

Niels Arden Oplev

#22. One is led to the conclusion that the one hundred per cent male and the one hundred per cent female are theoretical

Niels Hoyer

#23. There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding from the special to the general and it is extremely peculiar that such a procedure has led to so few of the so-called paradoxes.

Niels Henrik Abel

#24. 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

#25. No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Niels Bohr

#26. Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

Niels Bohr

#27. The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

Niels Bohr

#28. The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them,

Niels Diffrient

#29. Predition is risky, especially of the future.

Niels Bohr

#30. When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.

Niels Arden Oplev

#31. Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

Niels Bohr

#32. Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Niels Bohr

#33. What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Niels Bohr

#34. Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Niels Bohr

#35. And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

#36. It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Niels Bohr

#37. There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

Niels Bohr

#38. An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Niels Bohr

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

Niels Bohr

#40. Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

Niels Bohr

#41. How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

#42. Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

Niels Bohr

#43. Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.

Charles Hermite

#44. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Niels Bohr

#45. People like him had these weird thick skins. You insult them to their face and it whistles past their ears. They take irony as compliments and barely even notice your wittiest retorts. When

Niels Saunders

#46. When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

Niels Bohr

#47. You are not thinking, you are just being logical.

Niels Bohr

#48. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Niels Bohr

#50. Physics is not about how the world is, it is about what we can say about the world

Niels Bohr

#51. It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

#52. I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.

Niels Henrik Abel

#53. When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Niels Bohr

#54. The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

Niels Arden Oplev

#55. 'Deity' will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take the audience deep into Calcutta's many different levels. A fascinating clash between American and Indian culture.

Niels Arden Oplev

#56. It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth

Niels Bohr

#57. Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

#58. It looks like a galosh with electronics in it.

Niels Diffrient

#59. When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

Niels Arden Oplev

#60. One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

Niels Bohr

#61. It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.

Niels Arden Oplev

#62. It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

Niels Bohr

#63. My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

Niels Diffrient

#64. A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Niels Bohr

#65. It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

Niels Bohr

#66. When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

Niels Diffrient

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

Niels Bohr

#68. There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Niels Bohr

#69. A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'

Niels Bohr

#70. The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

Niels Diffrient

#71. We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

Niels Bohr

#72. We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Niels Bohr

#73. We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Niels Bohr

#74. Truth and clarity are complementary

Niels Bohr

#75. We are suspended in language.

Niels Bohr

#76. Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

Niels Bohr

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

Niels Bohr

#78. All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

Niels Bohr

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

Niels Bohr

#80. Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

Niels Bohr

#81. In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, as far as possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

Niels Bohr

#82. Complexity is the main enemy of security.

Niels Ferguson

#83. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Niels Bohr

#84. There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.

Niels Bohr

#85. The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

Niels Bohr

#86. I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Niels Bohr

#87. A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers.

Niels Kaj Jerne

#88. He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

{Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss}

Niels Henrik Abel

#89. Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

Niels Diffrient

#90. There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Niels Bohr

#91. It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

Niels Henrik Abel

#92. Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Niels Bohr

#93. By studying the masters and not their pupils.

Niels Henrik Abel

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

Niels Bohr

#95. The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

#96. Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

Niels Bohr

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

Niels Bohr

#98. Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

Niels Bohr

#99. Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are

Niels Bohr

#100. A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

Niels Bohr