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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

Niels Bohr

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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom 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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence 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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