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

Niels Bohr

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious

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