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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

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
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
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

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