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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

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
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
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
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
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious

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