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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

Niels Bohr

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
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
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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 measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World

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