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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property 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
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 quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual

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