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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr

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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
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
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time

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