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In 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.

Niels Bohr

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 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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
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

In 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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In 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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