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Niels Bohr

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
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 deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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 great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself

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