One must always do what one really cannot.
NIELS BOHRIt 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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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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No paradox, no progress.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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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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