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

Niels Bohr

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
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

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