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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

Niels Bohr

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
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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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time

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