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

Niels Bohr

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
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
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking 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

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