Niels Henrik David Bohr Quotes (7 Quotes)

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

Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future.

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

There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite ofa great truth is another truth.

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

We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough.

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.'