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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

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