A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
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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.Niels Henrik David Bohr
Address to Albert Einstein You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough.
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