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

Niels Bohr

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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
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 sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
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
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 opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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