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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Niels Bohr

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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
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
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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

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