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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.

Niels Bohr

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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
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
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
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

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