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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
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 person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
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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