Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
NIELS BOHRIt 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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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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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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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