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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

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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself

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