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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.

Niels Bohr

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand 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
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
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
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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

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