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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

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand

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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