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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

Niels Bohr

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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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