A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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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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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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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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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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The 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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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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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