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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Niels Bohr

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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking 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
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself

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