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

Niels Bohr

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Niels Bohr

Danish physicist born in 1885 who proposed the Bohr atomic model and won the 1922 Nobel Prize. He shaped the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and mentored a generation of physicists.

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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

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

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