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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

Niels Bohr

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking 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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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
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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth

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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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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