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

Niels Bohr

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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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
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
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself

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