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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
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
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
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry 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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious

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