Logo
Quote by Niels Bohr
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a t

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

Other quotes by Niels Bohr

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. – Niels Bohr

Category:
Poetry
Author
Niels Bohr
Read Quote

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

Category:
Thinking
Author
Niels Bohr
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
great
category

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
great

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
great

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. – Albert Pike

Category:
great

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. – Orison Swett Marden

Category:
great

Random Quotes

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. – James Fenimore Cooper

Category:
Democracy

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines. – Majel Barrett

Category:
Travel

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. – Ronald Reagan

Category:
power

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about “and.” – Arthur Stanley Eddington

Category:
Philosophical