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

Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand 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
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science

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