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Niels Bohr

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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.


— Niels Bohr


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


— Niels Bohr


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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.


— Niels Bohr


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


— Niels Bohr


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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.


— Niels Bohr


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


— Niels Bohr


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


— Niels Bohr


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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.


— Niels Bohr


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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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