Niels Bohr Quote

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

In response to Frisch & Meitner's explanation of nuclear fission, as quoted in The Physicists - A generation that changed the world (1981) by C.P.Snow, p. 96

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.