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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
NIELS BOHR

Book Myself Religious
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
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
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
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
NIELS BOHR

Science Understand
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
NIELS BOHR

End Laughter Ourselves
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHR

Thinking Understand Yourself

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