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Niels Bohr

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
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 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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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
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
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science

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