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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

Niels Bohr

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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
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
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
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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 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
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon

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