The quotations of

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist

1885–1962

9 quotes, most often on Science and Ideas.

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
Said to Wolfgang Pauli at Columbia University (1958), as reported by Freeman Dyson, ‘Innovation in Physics’, Scientific American (September 1958)
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