Niels Bohr

“Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”

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

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

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

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

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

“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

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

“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.”