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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

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
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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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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