An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
In physics, the truth is usually just an approximation.
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
The fact that a theory may be useful in the interpretation of one phenomenon doesn’t necessarily imply that it is useful in the interpretation of another.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
The task of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the past.
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.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
An experiment is a question that science poses to nature, and a measurement is the recording of nature’s answer.
The old adage that the truth will out is just that—an adage. It is not self-evident, and it is not trivial.
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought to light the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions.
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it.
In the great drama of existence, where all outer forms are but costumes under which the eternal spirit hides, man played too long the role of the selfish, ruthless, exploiting brute.
We must be clear that, 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.
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
The task of science is not to penetrate into those things for which knowledge is lacking, but to make more profound the knowledge about things that are already known.
The significance and joys of interdisciplinary science are the joys of discovery, of the new.
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Every conceivable observation can be interpreted in two ways, as an instance of order or as an instance of accident.
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
The self-assured believer is usually a time waster.
I don’t know what happened, but I do know why it was important.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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.
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.
In the great drama of existence, where all outer forms are but costumes under which the eternal spirit hides, man played too long the role of the selfish, ruthless, exploiting brute.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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