Niels Bohr

"The purpose of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"The intuition of the experimental physicist is guided by a deep understanding of the fundamental principles."

"Isolated knowledge is not sufficient; we must understand how things connect."

"We cannot escape the paradoxical nature of quantum reality."

"The elegance of a theory is as important as its correctness."

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"The greatest discoveries often overturn our previous understanding."

"Nature is fundamentally peaceful, yet we perceive conflict."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the most noble of human endeavors."

"We stand on the shoulders of giants, and they sometimes throw us off."

"Science advances not by accumulation but by revolution."

"The human mind is both the tool and the subject of physics."

"Reality is not what it appears to be."

"All sciences are connected; they are all branches of one tree."

"The moment we try to be precise about the atom, nature plays a trick on us."

"Understanding requires more than observation; it requires interpretation."

"The greatest luxury is solitude, but not the kind of loneliness that comes from isolation."

"We live in an age where knowledge doubles faster than we can assimilate it."

"The beauty of nature is that it rewards careful observation."

"A successful theory must be capable of being wrong."

"The universe speaks to us through mathematics."

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

"The atom is not the end of the story; it is the beginning."

"We must learn to think in paradoxes."

"The purpose of science is to enable us to live better lives."

"Nature is more subtle than our theories."

"The greatest achievement of science is humility."

"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."

"We are children of the universe exploring itself."