We must be clear that 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 and establishing mental connections.
~ Niels Bohr

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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
~ Niels Bohr

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An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
~ Niels Bohr

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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
~ Niels Bohr

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Truth and clarity are complementary.
~ Niels Bohr

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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
~ Niels Bohr

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