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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Niels Bohr

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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking 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
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
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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

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