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Niels Bohr

The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand

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