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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

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
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
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking 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

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