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Niels Bohr1885–1962

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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr

Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg’s and Pauli’s nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper “Innovation in Physics” (Scientific American, 199, No. 3

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