Bohr, Niels

"To love science is to love the process of questioning more than the answers obtained."

"The future is not something that happens to us; it is something we create through our choices."

"Strength does not come from certainty but from the courage to embrace doubt."

"Life's greatest lesson is that we are far more interconnected than we imagine."

"The pursuit of truth requires both passion and humility in equal measure."

"Nature abhors not vacuums but vagueness in our questions to it."

"The richness of science lies not in its answers but in the questions it raises."

"One must be prepared to abandon one's most cherished beliefs when evidence demands it."

"The beauty of nature is best appreciated by those who seek to understand it deeply."

"Success in science comes not to those who know the most, but to those who wonder the most."

"We are all sailors navigating uncharted waters; humility is our only compass."

"The greatest discoveries await those bold enough to question what everyone assumes to be true."

"In the end, science is a celebration of the human spirit's endless capacity for inquiry."

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

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."

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

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

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

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."

"I go along with the molecules."

"Isolated knowledge is not much use. It's when information gets woven into an understanding that it becomes really useful."

"We cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to be experienced by minds like ours."

"The great edifice of science is a way of organizing and systematizing our knowledge about the universe."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's friends from being shocked."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators."

"Science and religion are not antagonistic; they address different domains."

"The real problem is that the words we use to talk about nature all come from our experience in the everyday world."

"Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language."