If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
NIELS BOHRIn our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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.
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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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