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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

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
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself 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
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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

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