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Niels Bohr

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
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
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong

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