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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

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
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
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
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
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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

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