Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
NIELS BOHRIt is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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