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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.

Niels Bohr

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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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
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
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner

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