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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Niels Bohr

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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 some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand

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