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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
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
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
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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
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
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
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

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