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

Niels Bohr

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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 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
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
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
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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