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

Niels Bohr

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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself

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

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