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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality 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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work

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