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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Niels Bohr

If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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
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
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself

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