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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

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
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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

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