Quote #17
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
More from Niels Bohr
- Truth and clarity are complementary.
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
- It is better to don't understand something true, than to understand something false.
- Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
- Stop telling God what to do with his dice.