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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

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
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
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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 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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk

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