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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

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
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
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
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
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
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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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