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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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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
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
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself

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