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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Niels Bohr

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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

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