3 December 2020 Niels Bohr It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
3 December 2020 Niels Bohr Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
3 December 2020 Niels Bohr The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
3 December 2020 Niels Bohr How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
3 December 2020 Niels Bohr 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.
3 December 2020 Niels Bohr The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
3 December 2020 Niels Bohr 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.
