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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

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
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
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
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
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
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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

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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