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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

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
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
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 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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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
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
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom

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