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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Niels Bohr

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
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
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
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

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