Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.