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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
Association Football Player
Chemist
Nuclear Physicist
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
University Teacher
København
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Nicholas Baker
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Rutherford is a man you can rely on he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
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You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mashbut to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.
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Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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