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

Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
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 you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom

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