Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
NIELS BOHRWhen 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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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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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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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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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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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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