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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Niels Bohr

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
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
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science

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