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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

Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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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Creation Force Science Value World
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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
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
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself

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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