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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

Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word

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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