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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.

Niels Bohr

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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 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
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
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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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