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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Niels Bohr

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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner

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