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

Niels Bohr

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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 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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
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

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