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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

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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
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
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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