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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

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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
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
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
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language 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
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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

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