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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
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
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
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
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
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

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