When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
NIELS BOHRThe great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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