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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.

Niels Bohr

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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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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

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