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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

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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 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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking

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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