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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

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
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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

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