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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.

Niels Bohr

Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
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.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
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

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