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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality

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