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
essence way tasks
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
facts meaning-of-life life-has-no-meaning
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
crazy science technology
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
character reality ideas
We depend on our words...Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character...We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word 'reality' is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.
simple belief physics
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
inspirational family truth
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
wall believe luck
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.'
inspirational science thinking
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
laughing would-be aphorism
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
hallmark negation
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth
political democracy weapons
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
creating world assuming
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.
inspiration thinking order
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
inspirational life thinking
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.