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

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
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
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

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