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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Niels Bohr

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
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
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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
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
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself

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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