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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

Niels Bohr

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
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science

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