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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

Niels Bohr

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious

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