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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Niels Bohr

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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

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