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

Niels Bohr

Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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 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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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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