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

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
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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself

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