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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

Niels Bohr

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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself

All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

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