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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.

Niels Bohr

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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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 a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
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
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
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
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science

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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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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