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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 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
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
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

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