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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.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom

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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