If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
NIELS BOHRNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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