Niels Henrik David Bohr war ein dänischer Physiker. Er erhielt 1921 die Hughes-Medaille der Royal Society und den Nobelpreis für Physik im Jahr 1922 „für seine Verdienste um die Erforschung der Struktur der Atome und der von ihnen ausgehenden Strahlung“. Wikipedia
„Es gibt Dinge, die so ernst sind, daß man darüber nur scherzen kann.“
Mitgeteilt von Victor F. Weisskopf im Vorwort zu Wolfgang Pauli: Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, u.a., Band 1, S. VI books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=MbdFYf8oSxEC&pg=PR
Niels Bohr Das Quantenpostulat und die neuere Entwicklung der Atomistik
Das Quantenpostulat und die neuere Entwicklung der Atomistik. In: Die Naturwissenschaften. Band 16. Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Berlin Springer-Verlag 1928. S. 245
Mitgeteilt von Werner Heisenberg in: "Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik". R. Piper & Co., München, 1969, S. 280. DIE ZEIT 22. Aug. 1969 http://www.zeit.de/1969/34/kein-chaos-aus-dem-nicht-wieder-ordnung-wuerde
Zitiert nach Abraham Pais: "Ich vertraue auf Intuition - Der andere Albert Einstein". Aus dem Amerikanischen von Heiner Must. Heidelberg Berlin 1998, Seite 243, seinerseits zitiert nach Alice Calaprice (Hrsg.): "Einstein sagt". Deutsch von Anita Ehlers. Piper-Verlag, München, Zürich 1996, ISBN 3-492-03935-9, Seite 243
"Through Albert Einstein's work, the horizon of mankind has been immeasurably widened, at the same time as our world picture has attained, through Einstein's work, a unity and harmony never dreamed of before." - Niels Bohr: The Internationalist. Beitrag zur Ehrung Albert Einsteins durch die UNESCO zu seinem siebzigsten Geburtstag. UNESCO Courier 2 (No. 2 March 1949).
Atomphysik und menschliche Erkenntnis I - Aufsätze und Vorträge aus den Jahren 1933-1955. Herausgegeben von Aage Bohr, übersetzt von S. Hellmann. F. Vieweg, 1964. S. 66
“I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.”
As quoted in God Is Not One : The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World and Why Their Differences Matter (2010), by Stephen Prothero, Ch, 4 : Hinduism : The Way of Devotion, p. 144
Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper “Innovation in Physics” (Scientific American, 199, No. 3, September 1958, pp. 74-82; reprinted in "JingShin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta-You Wu," edited by Jong-Ping Hsu & Leonardo Hsu, Singapore; River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 1998, pp. 73-90, here: p. 84).
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
As quoted in First Philosophy: The Theory of Everything (2007) by Spencer Scoular, p. 89
There are many slight variants on this remark:
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough to be have a chance of being correct.
We in the back are convinced your theory is crazy. But what divides us is whether it is crazy enough.
Your theory is crazy, the question is whether it's crazy enough to be true.
Yes, I think that your theory is crazy. Sadly, it's not crazy enough to be believed.
Niels Bohr, "Discussions with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics," in Paul Arthur Schilpp, Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949) pp. 199-241.
“Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.”
In response to Frisch & Meitner's explanation of nuclear fission, as quoted in The Physicists - A generation that changed the world (1981) by C.P.Snow, p. 96
Speech on quantum theory at Celebrazione del Secondo Centenario della Nascita di Luigi Galvani, Bologna, Italy (October 1937)
As quoted in a letter written from J. Kalckar to John A. Wheeler dated June 10, 1977, which appears in Wheeler's "Law Without Law," pg 207.
