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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr

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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning 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

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