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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.

Niels Bohr

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
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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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science

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