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Niels Bohr [1885-1962] Danish

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Physicist

Niels Henrik David Bohr was 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.

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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.		101
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.	Hope	102
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.	Future	103
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.	Science	104
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.		105
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.		106
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.		107
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.		108
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.		109
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.	Great, Truth	110
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.	Nature	111
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.	Best	112
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.		113
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.	Truth	114
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.	Technology, Truth	115
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.		116
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.		117
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.		118
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.	Change	119
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.	Poetry	120
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.	Chance	121
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!		122

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