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Niels Bohr

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
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
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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