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

Niels Bohr

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
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 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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
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

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