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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

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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual

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