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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Niels Bohr

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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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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

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