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One must always do what one really cannot.

Niels Bohr

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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

One must always do what one really cannot.

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