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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
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
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
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious

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