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

Niels Bohr

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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