Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
NIELS BOHRAccuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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