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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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 opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
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
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 searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand

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