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

Niels Bohr

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
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
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
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time

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