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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

Niels Bohr

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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
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
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
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
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
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

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