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Niels Bohr

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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
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
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory

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