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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 Bohr

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God 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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself

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