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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

Niels Bohr

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself

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