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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Niels Bohr

If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry 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 all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
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
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
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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