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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.

Niels Bohr

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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 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
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
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
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
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

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