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

Niels Bohr

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
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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 not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True 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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth

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