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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. 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
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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 quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand 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
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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

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