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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.

Niels Bohr

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science

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