Niels Bohr — "We are all agreed that the only way of getting a correct impression of the world…"

"The fact that religions can exist, says that there is something in the human mind which is not satisfied by physics."

"When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it."

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections."

"It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness."

"The human spirit is capable of reaching for the stars."