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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.

Niels Bohr

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry 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
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
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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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon

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