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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.

Niels Bohr

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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
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
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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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
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
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand

A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.

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