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

Niels Bohr

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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
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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