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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Niels Bohr

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad

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