Wikiquote cites Ruth Moore’s Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, & the World They Changed (1966), page 196. We read that citation and wording, but did not inspect the biography itself.
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress” — Attributed to Niels Bohr, reported in Ruth Moore’s 1966 biography, p. 196; original testimony not independently checked.
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