Niels Bohr — "The ultimate goal of science is to understand the universe and our place in it."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."

"We are all agreed that the only way to escape from the paradoxes of quantum theory is to give up the idea of a 'classical' description of reality."

"The problem is not to know what the world is, but what we can say about it."

"When we speak of the electron, we are not speaking of something that really exists, but of something that we have imagined."

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."