Niels Bohr Quotes

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I'm a huge believer in clarity.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

Exactitude is not truth.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

What I care about is maximum information.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.

I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.