Niels Bohr Quotes

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

It's important to be unconventional.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

I've always been blown away by how unique Brian Limond's mind is.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.