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

Niels Bohr

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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth

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

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