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.
NIELS BOHRAn independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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No paradox, no progress.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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