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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
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
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
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value

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