Niels Bohr on Philosophy
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Niels Bohr, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Niels Bohr, entry #213795: "Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are."
Attributed to Niels Bohr, entry #172864: "It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness."
8 Quotes by Niels Bohr on Philosophy
"Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are."
"It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness."
"Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems."
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
"No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical."
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
"I go into the Upanishads to ask questions."
"For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory regarding the limited applicability of such customary idealizations, we must in fact turn to quite other branches of science, such as psychology, or even to that kind of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tzu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence."