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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

If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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 not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way

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