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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Niels Bohr

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
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.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science

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