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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.

Niels Bohr

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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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 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

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