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

Niels Bohr

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking

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