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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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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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Enough Human Rise Science Vice

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