Niels Bohr

A physicist.

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7 quotations — all marked as Serious.

  1. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a very narrow field.
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  2. Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
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  3. How wonderful that we have met with a paradox.
    Now we have some hope of making progress.
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  4. Of course not.
    But I am told it works even if you don't believe in it.
    [Reply to a visitor to his home in Tisvilde who asked him if he really believed a horseshoe above his door brought him luck.]
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  5. Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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  6. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
    But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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  7. We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.
    The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
    [Said to Wolfgang Pauli, after his presentation of Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles.]
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