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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Niels Bohr

Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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
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
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
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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

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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