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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
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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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property 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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

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