Quote

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Niels Bohr

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
Association Football Player
Chemist
Nuclear Physicist
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
University Teacher
København
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Nicholas Baker
N. Bohr
Inspirational
True
Plainly
Trivial
Truth
Truths
Also
Opposite
Great
Opposites
False
Family

More quotes by Niels Bohr

Image
It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
Niels Bohr
Image
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr
Image
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
Niels Bohr
Image
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
Niels Bohr
Image
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
Image
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
Niels Bohr
Image
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
Niels Bohr
Image
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
Niels Bohr
Image
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
Image
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
Niels Bohr
Image
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr
Image
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
Niels Bohr
Image
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
Niels Bohr
Image
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
Niels Bohr
Image
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr
Image
No paradox, no progress.
Niels Bohr
Image
Nothing exists until it is measured.
Niels Bohr
Image
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
Niels Bohr
Image
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
Niels Bohr
Image
Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
Niels Bohr