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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Niels Bohr

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
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 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
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
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

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