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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

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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking 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
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
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad

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