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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Niels Bohr

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
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand

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