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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

Niels Bohr

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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 great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
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
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
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True 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
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious

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