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

Niels Bohr

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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science

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