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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

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
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
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
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
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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