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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Niels Bohr

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
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
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person 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
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
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 some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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

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