In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but … - Niels Bohr

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Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

Niels Bohr

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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

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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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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.

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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

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