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Niels Bohr

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
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
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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

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