Niels Bohr
  • 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.

  • Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

  • How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

  • It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

  • 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.