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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

Niels Bohr

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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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 opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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 an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

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