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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

One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property 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
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True 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
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand

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