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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Niels Bohr

If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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 measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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