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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.

Niels Bohr

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory

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