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

Niels Bohr

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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property 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
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science

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