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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
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
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself

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