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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

Niels Bohr

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
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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
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
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
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

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

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