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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.

Niels Bohr

Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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 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 meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science

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