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

Niels Bohr

One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
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
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
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science

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