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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

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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
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
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

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