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Nothing exists until it is measured.

Niels Bohr

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
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 opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself

Nothing exists until it is measured.

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