Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation: [ni:ls ˈboɐ̯ˀ]) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel Prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
In 1922 Niels Bohr was awarded the Nobel prize in physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them".
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”
“كف عن إخبار الرب عما يجب عليه ان يفعله”
“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.”
“Vivere est Cogitare”
“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”
“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”
“It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth”
“The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.”
“Un experto es una persona que ha cometido todos los errores que se pueden cometer en un determinado campo. ”
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it’s own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
“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.”
“There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
“The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.”
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think”
“There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”