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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Bohr

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
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
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work

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