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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Niels Bohr

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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way

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