Niels Henrik David Bohr Famous Quotes
"Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head."
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough"
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
"No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical."
Niels Henrik David Bohr Quotations
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Phillips
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
Terry Cohen
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that"
Tom Lehrer
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Louis L Mann
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them."
Titus Livius
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers."
Gerald R Ford
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Tom Lehrer
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish proverb