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

Niels Bohr

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language 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
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work

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