It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
Niels BohrThe meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Niels BohrRutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.
Niels BohrThe very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.
Niels Bohr