Niels Bohr quotes

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.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.