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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Niels Bohr

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves

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