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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Niels Bohr

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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious

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