Showing posts with label Niels Bohr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Niels Bohr. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 October 2024

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

Saturday, 9 October 2021

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

Thursday, 8 October 2020

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

Saturday, 7 October 2017

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

Saturday, 8 October 2016

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

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

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

Thursday, 15 August 2013

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.

Friday, 9 August 2013

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

Friday, 12 April 2013

Vivere est Cogitare

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

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

Sunday, 16 December 2012

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

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

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

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Opposites are complementary.

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Sunday, 18 December 2011

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