Quote of the day

During today's keynote, Prof. Michael Ten Hompel has quoted the great physicist Niels Bohr:

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

If you think this is Bohr's only quote, think again:

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.


An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.


How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.


No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.


Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.


Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.


We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.


If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.


Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Don't you just love when Nobel Prices have great sense of humor?