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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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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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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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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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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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 anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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