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

Niels Bohr

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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

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