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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

Niels Bohr

Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
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
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas 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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

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