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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
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
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong

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