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

Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True 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
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
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 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
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
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
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
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
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science

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