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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

Niels Bohr

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
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
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
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
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

Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

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