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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
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
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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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