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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
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

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