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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

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
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
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
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves

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