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.
NIELS BOHRAddress to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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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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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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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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