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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property 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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

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