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

Niels Bohr

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 some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner

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

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