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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

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
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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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Himself Human Value

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