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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.

Niels Bohr

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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work 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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual

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