Niels Bohr Quotes

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

Science is not addressed to poets.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.