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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Niels Bohr

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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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

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