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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

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
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
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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

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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