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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

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
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
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 we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

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