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

Niels Bohr

No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad

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