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Niels Bohr Quotes about Science

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

"Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

"First Philosophy: The Theory of Everything". Book by Spencer Scoular, 2007.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Niels Bohr (2010). “Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge”, p.63, Courier Dover Publications

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Niels Bohr (2011). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

"The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Volume IV: Causality and Complementarity" edited by Jan Faye and Henry J. Folse (1998); later quoted in Karen Michelle Barad "Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning" (p. 254), 2007.