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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

Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking 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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
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

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