Wikiquote ties this wording to Freeman Dyson’s “Innovation in Physics,” Scientific American, September 1958, and a discussion of Wolfgang Pauli’s theory. We did not independently inspect Dyson’s article, so retain an attributed verdict.
“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” — Attributed to Niels Bohr, reported by Freeman Dyson in 1958; the original article was not independently inspected.
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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
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Wikiquote ties this wording to Freeman Dyson’s “Innovation in Physics,” Scientific American, September 1958, and a discussion of Wolfgang Pauli’s theory. We did not independently inspect Dyson’s article, so retain an attributed verdict. Wikiquote: Dyson citation ↗
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