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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Niels Bohr

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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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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