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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

Niels Bohr

Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep 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

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