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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

Niels Bohr

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

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