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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Niels Bohr

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
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 quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
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
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
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

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