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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

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
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
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual

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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