Niels Bohr Quotes

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

The critical mind is the creative mind.