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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.

Niels Bohr

If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
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
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
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
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious

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