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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

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
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 it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope 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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True 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

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