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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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

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