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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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