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

Niels Bohr

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory

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