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

Niels Bohr

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
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself

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

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