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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

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
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
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
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

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