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

Niels Bohr

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

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