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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
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
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
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science

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