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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.

Niels Bohr

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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality 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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material 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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

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