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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

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
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 aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
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 opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

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