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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Niels Bohr

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 we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
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
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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

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