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

Niels Bohr

If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
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

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