Niels Bohr Quotes

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

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

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that 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 and establishing mental connections.

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

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

I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a. subjective side won't get us very far.