We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
NIELS BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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