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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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 we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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 you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

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