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

Niels Bohr

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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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
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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
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

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