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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
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
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
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
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake

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