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

Niels Bohr

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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand

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