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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Bohr

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 an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science 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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner

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