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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

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
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
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.
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Language Poetry Science

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