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Niels Bohr

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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!


— Niels Bohr


#god #stop #telling

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


— Niels Bohr


#clearly #express #express yourself #more #never

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.


— Niels Bohr


#fact #falsehood #may #opposite #profound

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.


— Niels Bohr


#serious #some #some things #them #things

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.


— Niels Bohr


#cannot #everything #made #real #regarded

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.


— Niels Bohr


#every #i #must #question #sentence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.


— Niels Bohr


#itself #just #looking #physicist #way

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.


— Niels Bohr


#false #great #great truth #opposite #plainly

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.


— Niels Bohr


#anybody #first #first thing #getting #giddy

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.


— Niels Bohr


#just #logical #thinking #you






About Niels Bohr

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Did you know about Niels Bohr?

He also appears on a banknote in 1997 when the Danish National Bank started circulating the 500-krone banknote with the portrait of Bohr smoking a pipe. In Kalckar Jørgen. He helped develop quantum mechanics in which electrons move from one energy level to another in discrete steps instead of continuously.

Later the element Bohrium was named after him. After Denmark was occupied by the Germans he had a dramatic meeting in Copenhagen with Heisenberg who had become the head of the German nuclear energy project. He conceived the principle of complementarity: that items could be separately analysed as having contradictory properties like behaving as a wave or a stream of particles.

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