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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Niels Bohr

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
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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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom

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