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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
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
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
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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