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

Niels Bohr

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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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