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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

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
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
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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 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
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand

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