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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry 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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom

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