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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

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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

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