Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohrwas a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 October 1885
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
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One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. – Niels Bohr,1885-1962, Danish Physicist
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made but in a very narrow field.
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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
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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.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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
ideas our-words tasks
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.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.