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

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself

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