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

Niels Bohr

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

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