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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

If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
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
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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress 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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself

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