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

Niels Bohr

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand 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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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

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