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One must always do what one really cannot.

Niels Bohr

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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress 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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious

One must always do what one really cannot.

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